New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
,ur,r.pNrNo OF THE SCHOOLS.

TIE LEARNING OF THE SCHOOLS
ENGLISH AS SHE Is TAUGHT. Genuine Answers 70
Examination Qnesnons ~ R S1r l" Iso mn T. ios
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Thu ous.tion is sometimes asked whether this
hook. extracts from which have appeared IN The
Ceutury magazine, can possibly be genuineS Read
II. and you will be in no doubt soou.
tho answer. The specimens OF scnooi
cbildren's plumbers arc altogether too funny
TO be fictitious. grown person capable oi ,nten'
tng such incomparable absurdities would DO
Greater humor,.t than this country has ever pro-
6nceA. Init in tho brain Of o child. bothered with
too MANY hard books, there is chaos OF CONFUSION
from witch examination questions" can Draw
the most startling combinations OF the grotesque'
sometimes we can Just discern in these answers the
climmer Of q tram Of thought. The definition
of Commons" as power to eat all things" ana OF
"auriferous" as giving lights from yourself can
be accounted for. Technology" as "a plagiarism
nearly obsolete Is more obscure. II have gauzy
hen at home" Is puzzle. unless gauzy Is SUPPOSED
to be synonym for thin. "Herod was ca,iou
tetrarch because he was 80 fond OF tea oou"'ioes
n desperate guess; and there Is suggestion OF sao
hayv,iaarmont in the statement that zoology
"a interesting TO those who like the study OF words
-y,oor child! In grammar the confusion IL tre-
maudoua "Grammer is how to talk good" may
he objectionable: but many scholar can truth-
fully say that Grammar gives us the ianguisn.
I" A pronoun Is word when we can't get noun"
Brackets are things set of so they won't have
ANYTHING to do with the sentence" - PERSON In
yrammer tells us whether he is a man or woman.
II is always an animal or something that sen'
alive" prose tells things that are true nght
along lust as thew are and poetry makes IL up Is
YOU 60 along" If this were only SO! Ihe answers
In geography are almost uniformly absurd. HIS
d,a. md
literature have been crammed into the unfortunate
little heads take there the most unooked-for
shapes. We quote few things at random:
Tho creat axes of America is champagne
The PRINCIPAL mts. of America are lamp peal
The Yosemity Valley is the highest mountain in
u" The appacation of the Greenland whisky lemon
No northwest passage has ever been discovered
around the Cape Of Good Hope .... ~
=" He issued papal bull the news "rit'en Oh
the hoard outside the Office.
William Penn was born in Boston in 1907. he
was the first white man who i0unoga ca re%nsS is
name was William Penn.
"' At White Plains General Washington murdered
in his military character julius Caesar probably
never surpassed any other hero A.,
.iniius Cesar was quite military man on the
Salem witchcraft was son OF Massasoit
Indians go ont naked in the summer an yhey
take ahold of their scalp locks and cnt on tne
orber side of their heads They wear 1t on their
samson Augusta was one of Chaucer's pFin',,
epa works as contained ro ms e about
f Parsaise - ~ s. a Nv w.ds LONG.
fellow an American Writer. His writings are
chiefly prose- and nearly one hundred years elaPsed
Mrs Browning wrote sonnets TO the fostery
Snscrt is not az much used it used to be, as 1t
went out of use 300 b. Z.